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Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin , Erwin P. van der Poel

The formation pathways for gravitational-wave merger sources are predicted to include common envelope (CE) evolution. Observations of high-mass post-common envelope binaries suggest that energy transfer to the envelope during the CE phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 E. C. Wilson , J. Nordhaus

Gravity-driven convection of fluid at parameters near its thermodynamic critical point inside a porous layer heated from below (Rayleigh-Darcy convection) is studied. The fluid having the temperature slightly above the critical one is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-26 E. B. Soboleva

Convection is a fundamental physical process in the fluid cores of planets because it is the primary transport mechanism for heat and chemical species and the primary energy source for planetary magnetic fields. Key properties of…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Céline Guervilly , Philippe Cardin , Nathanaël Schaeffer

We investigate the evolution of spread over three days in a numerical ensemble experiment starting from tiny initial condition uncertainty. We simulate a real event during which three mesoscale convective systems occur in close proximity to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Edward Groot , Michael Riemer

Non-local, time-dependent convection models have been used to explain the location of double-mode pulsations in Cepheids in the HR diagram as well as the existence and location of the red edge of the instability strip. These properties are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Eva Mundprecht , Herbert J. Muthsam , Friedrich Kupka

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that solves the steady-state Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for buoyant compressible pollution dispersion under different meteorological conditions is developed. A 6.4 km by 6.4…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-15 Zhihao Li , Rebecca Tanzer-Gruener , Albert Presto , Peter Adams , Satbir Singh

Context. The surface structures and dynamics of cool stars are characterized by the presence of convective motions and turbulent flows which shape the emergent spectrum. Aims. We used realistic three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Chiavassa , L. Casagrande , R. Collet , Z. Magic , L. Bigot , F. Thevenin , M. Asplund

Magneto-convection simulations with two scenarios have been performed: In one, horizontal magnetic field is advected into the computational domain by fluid entering at the bottom. In the other, an initially uniform vertical magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Robert F. Stein , David Bercik , Aake Nordlund

The coexistence of motions on various scales is a remarkable feature of solar convection, which should be taken into account in analyses of the dynamics of magnetic fields. Therefore, it is important to investigate the factors responsible…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-15 O. V. Shcheritsa , A. V. Getling , O. S. Mazhorova

This paper describes a series of 3D simulations of shallow inefficient convection in the outer layers of the Sun. The computational domain is a closed box containing the convection-radiation transition layer, located at the top of the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Robinson , P. Demarque , L. H. Li , S. Sofia , Y. -C. Kim , K. L. Chan , D. B. Guenther

We study fully compressible convection in the context of plane-parallel, polytropically stratified atmospheres. We perform a suite of 2D and 3D simulations in which we vary the initial superadiabaticity ($\epsilon$) and the Rayleigh number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-06 Evan H. Anders , Benjamin P. Brown

I represent results three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar surface convection on scales local supergranulation with realistic model physics. I study thermal structure of convective motions in photosphere, the range of convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Ustyugov

The clearing up of a wave nature of the energy and mass transfer phenomena in classical expressions of the molecular-kinetic theory has allowed to find a quantitative measure of intensity of processes of a thermal conductivity, viscosity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

The adsorption behavior of ions at liquid-vapor interfaces exhibits several unexpected yet generic features. In particular, energy and entropy are both minimum when the solute resides near the surface, for a variety of ions in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-08 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Patrick R. Shaffer , Phillip L. Geissler

The heat transfer behavior of convection-driven dynamos in a rotating plane layer between two parallel plates, heated from below and cooled from the top, is investigated. At a fixed rotation rate (Ekman Number, $E=10^{-6}$) and fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Souvik Naskar , Anikesh Pal

In this paper we investigate the level of hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) in the intra-cluster medium of simulated galaxy clusters, extracted from state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 V. Biffi , S. Borgani , G. Murante , E. Rasia , S. Planelles , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , A. M. Beck , M. Gaspari , K. Dolag

The study of chaotic mixing is important for its potential to improve our understanding of fluid systems. Contour advection simulations provide a good model of the phenomenon by tracking the evolution of one or more contours or isolines of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Peter Mills

Convective mixing in porous media is crucial in both geophysical and industrial fields, spanning applications ranging from carbon dioxide sequestration to contaminant transport in groundwater. Key processes are affected by convective heat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-29 Marco De Paoli , Sergio Pirozzoli , Lou Kondic

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a central component of tropical climate, but the conditions under which a tropical rain belt remains zonally extended or becomes unstable to zonal organization are not well understood. We…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tomoro Yanase , Cathy Hohenegger